Identifying mailing-card.



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IDENTIFYING MAILING CARD. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- I. l9l6.

1,208,827. Patented Dec. 19,1916.

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IDENTIFYING MAILING-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19, 1916.

Application filed September 7, 1916. Serial No. 118,823.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN G. PIOKERING, a citizen of the United States,residing in Montgomery county, near the city of Dayton, Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Identifying Mailing-Cards, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in identifyingmailing cards.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a mailing severed anidentifying part that may be readily and firmly secured to the coat ofthe addressee. This part, when worn, will be the means of identifyinghim to his fellows-particularly in social gatherings.

Lodges and other organizations that provide social affairs fortheirmembers, usually send out letters containing tickets of admission.If my card is sent, it contains a part which may not only be used as aticket of admission, but also to display the name of the addressee atthe social function.

My invention is also adapted for advantageous use by Y. M. C. A.institutes and other educational associations who send out cards toprospective students. The part containing the prospective students namemay be clipped out by him, presented for admission to initial meetings,and worn there to identify him to the faculty and other prospective orenrolled students.

After the identifying part is severed from the card, the attaching meansprovided enable it to be readily secured to the coat of the wearer, andneatly and firmly held there on until removed.

The preferred form of embodiment of my invention is illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a plan view of a postal cardwith my identifying part running transverse the same. Fig. 2 is a planview of a card with my identifying part disposed vertically thereon.Fig. 3 is a front view of a coat to which my identifying part of amailing card is transversely attached. Fig. 4 is a front view of theidentifying part itself, with the lip portion thereof turned at a rightangle to enter the button-hole in the lapel of the addressees coat. AndFig. 5 is a sectional view taken through said lapel, showing how thesaid identifying part is firmly held to the coat by a pin.

Throughout the specification and drawcard from which may be said pin.The slot 10is ings, similar reference characters denote cor respondingparts.

In a detailed description of the preferred form of embodiment of myinvention, the numeral 1 designates a United States postal card which isscored or marked transversely by tWo parallel lines 2 and 3. Withinthese lines, preferably near the central portion of the card, may beplaced the name and address of the person to which the card is to besent. In Fig. 1, the name and address on the card is John R. Doe,Dayton, Ohio. As shown in Fig. 2, the lines 2 and 3 may be disposedvertically on a card 4 that may be inserted in an envelop, the name ofthe addressee being written vertically, as shown.

On the card shown in Fig. 1, a preferably rectangular lip portion 5 isscored above the addressees name, while on the card shown in Fig. 2 alip portion 6 is formed by connecting the upper ends of the lines 2 and3 by a line17 which is parallel with the edge of the car On the card 1the bottom of the lip portion 5 coincides with a central part 8 of theline 2. The part 8 of the line 2 also divides a large aperture 9 belowthe line 2, from a slot 10 within the lip portion 5, said aperture lyingbelow, and the slot above, the line 7 on the card 4. The aperture 10 islarge enough to permit the head of a common pin 11 to be passed throughit, while the slot 10 is just large enough to receive the shank of notwide enough to pin 11 to be drawn it for a purpose now to be depermitthe head of the through scribed.

When the card 1 is received by the addressee he cuts or tears out thatpart of the card between the lines 2 and 3 and the boundary lines of thelip portion 5. In the card 4 he is only required to cut or divide alongthe lines 2 and 3, since the lip portion 6 is embraced between the upperends of those lines. The pin 11-; is now in serted in the buttonhole 12of a coat 13, as shown in Fig. ,5. The lip( portion ,5of the card 1 isthen forced into said buttonhole, while the part of the coat 13containing the pin is pressed outwardly to permit the head of the latterto be passed through the aperture 9. The. shank of the pin is thenforced into the slot] 10, after which the identifying part of the cardis bent downwardly' along the line 8. Since said line divides theaperture 9 from the slot 10, and

both are now bent thereon at a right angle to each other, the pin 11cannot pass into said aperture to be released; and as the head of saidpin is wider than the slot 10, it will press the lip portion 5 firmlyagainst the upper edge of the buttonhole 12. In other words, the pin 11is firmly locked in the slot 10 to securely hold the identifying part ofthe card 1 in the position shown in Fig. 3, whereby it will prominentlydisplay the name of the wearer to those about him. The rear edge portionof the lip por tion 5, after the latter is secured in the buttonhole 12as above described, is preferably bent against the inside part of thecoat lapel to assist the pin 11 in firmly holding the identifying partof the card thereon.

The severed part of the card t may be secured within the buttonhole 12by the pin 11 in a manner similar to that above described, but insteadof the identifying part showing laterally, it will extend verticallybelow the dividing line 7. To remove either of said cards from the coat,it is only necessary to bend the identifying part of the card intoapproximately the same plane as its respective lip portion and thenpress the shank of the pin 11 into the aperture 9, whereupon the pinhead being narrower than said aperture, will release the card.

It is thus obvious that I have provided a mailing card which contains anidentifying part that may be easily severed from the latter, readilysecured to the coat of the addressee, and neatly and firmly held thereonuntil removed.

I do not wish to be limited to the details of construction andarrangement herein shown and described, and any changes or modificationsmay be made therein within the scope of the subjoined claims.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a nameand address, and means cooperating with a tapering hole formed in saidseparable part, for firmly securing the latter, when severed from thecard, to the coat of the addressee.

2. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a nameand address, and a hole in said separable part through which anattaching pin may be passed, said hole terminating in a portion narrowerthan the head of said pin but wide enough to receive the shank thereof,whereby the pin may firmly and neatly secure said separable part, whensevered from the card, to the coat of the addressee. V

3. A mailing card containing a separable part adapted to receive a nameand address, a wide aperture and a narrow slot connected on a dividingline in said separable part above the name and address, and a pinattached within abuttonhole of the addressees coat, the head of said pinadapted to be passed through said aperture, after which said pin may bepressed into the slot, which is narrower than its head, to firmly securethe separable part, when severed from the card, to the coat of theaddressee.

I. A mailing card containing an identifying part and an attaching part,a dividing line between said parts, an aperture in said identifyingpart, a pin attached within a button hole of the addressees coat, havinga head adapted to pass through said aperture, said attaching part havinga slot narrower than the pin head, said slot meeting the aperture onsaid dividing line to receive the shank of said pin, whereby the lattermay firmly secure the identifying and attaching parts, when severed fromthe, card and bent at right angles to each other on said dividing line,to the coat of the addressee.

5. A mailing card containing an elongated scored part adapted to'receivea name and address, said scored part having above the latter anattaching lip p'ortion adapted to be turned at rightangles thereto whensevered from the card, an aperture in said scored part, a pin attachedwithin a buttonhole of the add'ressees coat, having a head adapted topass through said aperture, said lip portionhaving a slot narrower thanthe pinhead, said slot meeting the aperture on the line which dividesthe lip portion from the identifying part, to receive said pin, afterwhich the identifying part is turned at right angles to its lip portionto lock the pin in said slot, whereby the severed part of said card willbe firmly secured by it to the coat of the addressee.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day ofSeptember, 1916. EDWIN G. PICKERING.

Witnesses:

.ERNEST T. Hus'ron, HOWARD S. SMITH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, hy'addressingthe Commissioner of Iatents.

Washington, I). C.

